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W. Edwards Deming, at age 88, was still going strong at Washington's George Washington University la

Science fiction is a popular diversion for many people, but there is an equally strong attraction fo

TUESDAY'S ARREST of the leader of Mexico's oil workers' union, JoaquinHernandez Galicia, bet

TWO WESTERN POWER COMPANIES, PacifiCorp and Utah Power & Light, this week completed the largest elec

This is a column about Bush's law, a no man's land, the wise men, a promising approach to the U.S.-J

Pity the dollar bears. Coordinated central bank intervention to sell U.S.dollars into the ma

THERE'S BLAME APLENTY to pass around for the crisis of the savings and loan industry, which may requ

BOND BETWEEN TEXTILE, APPAREL SECTORS STRONGYour Dec. 27 editorial, Weakening Cement is far,

Building on Ronald Reagan's final budget will be a tricky task for George Bush, who wants credibili

With Ronald Reagan about to leave the national stage, Washington is in a mellow mood. Even liberals

Across the muddy River Plate from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Uruguay's democratic government has probl

The end of the year and the first two weeks of January together traditionally are a more leisurely t

THE UNITED STATES IS THE WORLD'S PREMIER coal producer and one of a handful of countries that are po

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OFTEN has trouble keeping its promises, but the Transportation Department las

Last summer I boarded a Swedish domestic flight without passing through a security check or having m

USERS SHOULDN'T PAY FOR LILCO'S MISTAKEWe concur with your assertion that Gov. Mario Cuomo's

PRESIDENT REAGAN, in offering his final budget Monday, proposed to take a big chunk out of the feder

Contrary to popular belief, the tax burden is not too low. In fact, it's much closer to the record h

A FORMAL OFFER ISN'T EVEN PENDING, but the lines have been drawn in a takeover battle that promises

Many critics of excessive corporate leverage have proposed decreasing the attractiveness of takeover

Chester Burger grew up in Brooklyn. He went hungry a lot when he was young. Although Brooklyn is jus

The Reagan administration is reported ready to propose today an end to Export-Import Bank direct cr

THE CAUSE OF THE COZY COMPETITION in the airline industry is no secret: Lax enforcement of the anti

A HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE IN MOSCOW? Even two years ago, the notion would have been ludicrous. But t

It is not the most appropriate New Year's gift the government could have given to Yugoslavs, but it

The democracies of the Caribbean are at a critical point in their development process. Real

TAXING CORPORATIONS presents one of the most complex and consequential issues in economic policy. Mo

HOW PROPOSITION 103 WILL AFFECT CALIFORNIAThe article Calif. Court Ruling Opens Competition

Some years ago, a creative attorney wrote to the U.S. Customs Service on behalf of a new client. Alt

US SHOULD ESCHEW BILATERAL AGREEMENTSThe companion op-ed articles (Dec. 16) concerning Mexic

YOU CAN'T BLAME OUR TRADING PARTNERS for being just a little bit confused about exactly what America

ON THE EVE OF THE NEW YEAR, Canada finally ratified a controversial accord with the potential to res

Two separate proposals that have received some attention lately - boosting the pay of top federal of

IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT that each federal agency got to keep the money it collected. The Enviro

Nostradamus T. Ouija was on the phone, volunteering his forecasts for 1989. Mr. Ouija, grand

Tough times lie ahead for most Americans. While the economy is strong at the moment, there's a risk

THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT USUALLY takes a dim view of competitors that exchange business information. L

In his presidential address to the American Economic Association in 1967, Nobel laureate Milton Frie

Ten years after he helped open a new era in Sino-American relations by normalizing diplomatic relati

A NEW YEAR BRINGS new opportunities, new chances, new choices. It also has a way of bringing new hop